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Seeds of Education Sprouting

January 20 2015

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Be an actor or actress!

Your role is the country you are representing, so feel free to get into character! Pretend you really are a person from Nigeria, France, or USA!

(Melissa)

If you find a subject or issue you really like, you should definitely try focusing on that to know more and learn more. Also, socialize with different people during MUN. Through socializing I was also able to learn about different cultures around the world which gives us a wide view of the world.

Be Open to learn new things and Socialize!

Don’t forget that the most important part of MUN is the people you will meet! Never be afraid to go up to some-one you don’t know in MUN, introduce your-self, and start a conver-sation.

Public Speaking Structure

UN4MUN Procedure Briefing

UN Speaker Series

MUN Simulation + SDG Topic Briefing

Position Paper Research

360 Feedback

Stress Management Activity

Resolution-writing

Consensus at the UN

UN Speaker Series

Country Profile

Position Paper Research

360 Feedback

Game Night (Mentors, Supporters)

Time Table

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Day 2

Day 3

MUN Tips &

Tricks!from trainer

Have Fun in MUN!

(Miji)

(Caleb)

(Charlene)

Know your country inside-out!

It’s important to know your country’s stance on the topic, who shares them as well, and which countries generally support or oppose your country. This will help you have a better understanding of whom you would have to convince to support your country’s position.

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Extra-Curricular Activity : Stress Management Program(Paul&Mark)

Extra-Curricular Activity : Game Night

ontinuing from the first day’s ice-breaking activities, the students gathered at the gym in the afternoon and played a series of games to blow and manage their stress away. Under the guidance of Terry Park from Paul & Mark, students voluntarily gathered in circles and actively participated throughout the whole program.There were series of games that encouraged students to participate in each and every ac-tivities, while having the opportunity to meet friends from different tracks. For instance, the ‘Stress Management Activity’ began by playing speed games such as “Catch the tail” and “Grouping”; the students interacted with each other regardless of gender and age, jumping up and down and running gym court with bursting laughters all around. Cheerful shouts echoed as students played against one another in trying to enjoy games. Other games also required students to get together and cooperate with each other, as they tried hard in mapping out game strategies and discussing possible answers to ‘Yes or No’ questions.This four-hour ‘Stress Management Activity’ surely blew away students’ stress and brought back the spirit of the camp. I truly hope that through this activity, students have had the chance to relax and just have fun!

fter three days of hard work on public speech and international issues, it is finally the time to enjoy and have fun ! With anticipation, students gathered in groups at the gym for a Game Night Out! Supporters and mentors made painstaking efforts to offer amusing time.

Students were divided by their classes and went around 10 different game booths where each mentors explained the rules of games from tissue volley ball to tongue-twister.The first team to collect 10 winning-star stickers became the winning team of the game night. As Game night went on, students filled the gym with great joy and laughter as they moved from booth to booth. Students shook their body as hard as they could to detach pieces of Post-its from their clothes. They ran, jumped and shook their body with enjoyment. One of the diffi-cult game was “Guess the word”. Students tried to get the right answer by guessing only using their body. After 2 hours, there were awards ceremony for the winning team. IMO team from a high school track, UNHCR team from a middle school track, and both WFP team and WHO team won the prize. Congratulations!

Game night provided students time to get to know each other and interact. We hope that stu-dents were de-stressed and refreshed from the day!

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William Yotive“What is United Nations?”

Anne Marie Sloth Carlsen,Director of the UNDP Seoul Policy Centre

s William Yotive, the incumbent UN Project-Manager of the United Nations Global Teaching and Learning Project, entered the lecture hall, his charismatic facial expressions, together with his handsome appearances already attracted students’ attentions.

Already having met him just the day before at the opening ceremony and his personal career having won their hearts, the students seemed to be ex-pecting an amazing lecture. Apparently, as the writ-er went inside the hall, most of the students were largely focusing on the lecture, and they seemed to be totally engaged in the content.

Exercising his professional competence to impart knowledgeable and novel information, he consis-tently asked students questions to involve students in the lecture.

And this agenda directly pertains to your future.” she told the students, putting stress on her voice. She encouraged students to actively take part in

the world better, and make their voices heard. She ended with introducing some initiatives that try to listen to the voice of youth in order for young students to be engaged in international issues.

Youth who designs the future we want After the lectures, changes were made as they ex-

and actively participated in the curriculum. So I started taking a closer look at how students plan to prepare themselves to plan out the future. I could see that the future they are going to make will be a better place for economic development and environmental protection . I can’t wait to live in the happier future they designed.

From MDGs to SDGs All United Nations member states have tried to achieve eight Millennium Development Goals from 1990 to 2015. As the target date of the MDGs approached, the international community felt the need to make a new frame for a better world. The new frame called ‘Sustainable Development Goals’ focuses on sustainability as the lecture indicates. “We are now moving towards SDGs which is a broader agenda than MDGs”, Ms. Anne Marie Sloth Carlsen, a director of UNDP Seoul Policy Centre explained.

“We are actually bringing together two tracks into the broader context. One track is economic and social development and the other track is envi-ronmental development”. It looked like several questions popped up in the students’ mind: ‘Why does it have to be sustainable development?’ Just like the lecturer have read the students’ mind, she suggested,“We have to stay within the safe bound-ary, not overstepping it. At the same time we have to meet the needs of inner circle in order to satisfy many people’s wants”. She further gave insights on how to implement SDGs after 2015. It requires a new global partnership which ranges from mobi-

appropriate policies and regulations.

Youth, the Torchbearers After she delivered the UNDP’s role in SDGs’s implementation, one sentence came up on the screen.

Young people will be torchbearers of the next sus-tainable development agenda through 2030

“You are a part of the largest youth group the world has ever seen. You have so many brothers and sisters all over the world.

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Inspiring speech that provided fresh insights into the United Nation 2015 Development Framework and Sustainable Development Goals

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Not only providing factual information about the United Nations and global issues, he also raised thought-provoking questions and students were actively participating in his speech.

For instance, Mr.Yotive asked the students “How much cans will you donate to poor countries?” He incremently increased the number of cans after checking their responses. In addition, he asked “Why do UN member states write resolution on a piece of paper?”. In order to make sure students understand the important concepts, he made

students looked puzzled, the speaker immediately

to have a better understanding.

Moreover, if important concepts come out during the lecture like ‘negotiation’ and ‘consensus’, he

concept into Korean. The crowd was impressed by his caring and witty remarks, all concentrated on his lecturing methods and contents.

He generally spelled out the negotiation process that is practically being carried out in the United Nations, from the general debate phase to the stage of reaching consensus. Calling the state achieving consensus as a miraculous thing, he emphasized the importance of reaching unani-mous agreement that does not necessitate forceful actions that push them to follow the UN’s decision.

in the latter part of the lecture, he told students that they will learn how the UN delegates reach

Students, seemingly motivated by this inspiring speech gave him a warm round of applause at the end, completing the lecture with lingering feelings.

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Student Interview

Hyoung-Joon LimHead of World Food Programme (WFP) Korea

Q. How will the things you’ve learned today affect you in the future?

Q. What was the most interesting thing that you learned during class today?

Seo Yoon Choi, UNESCO

Joo Hyun Park, UNESCO

Today, we learned gender equality issues that are mainly being discussed in the real UN and MUNs. Through trainers’ lectures, I could un-derstand how important the issue is to our lives. By an in-depth approach to this issue, I made up my mind to respect every single indi-vidual regardless of their gender. This mindset would affect my future lives in a positive way.

How Mr. William delivered his speech and the way he elaborated those information were more than inspiring. I really liked how he made his overall speech, and I also find the contents he told us very effective in designing our future blueprints.

fter studying with our wonderful trainers, the students gathered at plenary hall for a lecture on world hunger and poverty. Hyoung-Joon Lim, the head of WFP (World Food Programme) Seoul Office happily joined us to give lecture “Zero-Hunger”.

To understand the current hunger situation, Mr. Lim showed students something called ‘the hun-ger map’, an annual publication from WFP that shows the status of world’s famine. The hunger map shows that 1/9 out of total world population cannot get access to proper food.

Then, what causes hunger? Mr.Lim explained the following five main factors of hunger: climate, war and displacement, unstable market and food wast-age. These factors largely affect stable food produc-tion and consumption. Everyone seemed shocked to hear that about 1/3 of all food produced are never consumed and classified as food waste.

After explaining the meaning of hunger and its causes, Mr. Lim showed an inspiring video that proved hunger in the world CAN be solved, once the countries with most food share their resources.

Thus, Mr. Lim added that the main goal of ‘Ze-ro-Hunger’ campaign is to share food with other countries and help those who are suffering from starvation and malnutrition. In fact, WFP works to solve such crisis, through taking measures and building infrastructures (water facility, bridges etc.) and providing emergency meals. He empha-sized that WFP aims to bring food assistance to more than 80 million people from 75 countries in the world. It helps people how to prevent hunger not only in the present, but most importantly, in the future. Mr. Lim explained that WFP conducts programs that teach people how to use food as a tool for enlarging assets and nurturing a reinforced, dynamic communities. He assisted that this will help communities to become more food secure, which will enable proper food production and consumption. The lecture reminded students to take caution and be aware of the grave hunger situations in the world. I hope that through the lecture students have had the chance to become more engaged in issues which the international society is working hard to improve.

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My mentor Hyebin and I are friends. And it is really comfortable to talk with her. The trainers can speak Korean so when we don’t know how to translate words from Korean to English, they help us in classes.

Q. How would you describe your relationship with your trainers and mentor?

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Student Interview

Trainer Interview

Q. What was the most interesting thing that you’ve learned today? Q. Tell us briefly about what you taught to the

students today.

Q. Compared to the first day of class, how was today’s class different?

Jisoo Lee, UNEP

The most interesting thing was the position paper. It helps to make speech and orga-nizes the structure of the paragraph. Most of the time, I speak without organizing. So sometimes people say what I say are really hard to understand. But, by making posi-tion paper, it became easier for me to form speeches and speak louder in front of audi-ence.

we taught the students how to form a speech. They learned that every speech should have a hook, point, and action, which helped them to have structure and direction for their speech-es.

On the first day of class, the students seemed to be shy, nervous and reluctant to share their opinions in English. Through many lectures and activities that encouraged public speak-ing, negotiating and critical thinking, students have gained more confidence in expressing their views, and now show greater excitement for the upcoming MUN lessons.

Charlene Hong / Trainer / Best Delegate(UNEP)

Miji Lee / Trainer / Best Delegater(UNESCO)

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Trainer Interview

Q. Why is position paper important (to the students)?

Q. Compared to the first day of class, how was today’s class different?

A position paper is crucial in helping students to understand their delegation’s position on different topics. A position paper can become a great guideline for a student to use for form-ing speeches, resolutions, and policy.

Today, students were really understanding higher level concepts. They were also work-ing well together! Often times, they were ex-plaining ideas to the person next to them or helping them with words they didn’t know in English. Students also received their country assignments today! We are one step closer to the final simulation!

Caleb Oh / Trainer / Best Delegate(UNICEF)

Melissa Miller / Trainer / Best Delegate (UNHCR)

Today’s Photos

January 20 2015

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Today’s Photos

January 20 2015

WFUNA Youth Camp Korea: Winter 2015

Produced by WFUNA Youth Camp 4th Press Team

Eun Yi Kim

Ji Hwang Ha

Sae Rom Hahm

Seong Jin Cho

Sung Min Ko

Su Min Yoo

Yun Il Seong